I played mesmer and screw best and worst, it was just plain fun. Nothing could kill me as I just cloned and then stelthed my way out of situations. I pretty much played distraction but my team always won as I led enemies away from capture points.

this adds an additional 120 toughness to my character, 42 to my power, and 192 to my healing

I then pack on equipment that buffs my power so that I get crazy healing and crazy damage

and basically I am an unkillable killbot machine

you either turn and face me and have my pets lay waste to you while I kite away or you turn and face my pets while I deal tons of damage to you (This is usually why I choose pets go boom as I can land marks just fine)

every staff attack heals me quite considerably, I tend to use my dodge to stay near players and just dump another mark on them...

I end up with so much health, so much toughness, pure raw damage, and absurd healing that I am just a nightmare to face

on the RARE (and I mean RARE) occasion where I have been ganged up on and brought lowish on health I just switch to death shroud and kite while creating more marks and fully replenishing my health before switching out of it and unleashing more death upon my enemies...)

and of course if many players are focused on the healing machine of death that means my allies are free to unload death upon them too

So my vote is NECRO, haven't got into a 1v1 PVP situation vs all of these classes (some of them just don't seem to show up) But those I haven't from how they play

that being said...thieves are annoying little pests

Elementalist - they are best summed up as PREY, especially when I have pets go boom

Necromancer - they are annoying, or they are built and fall to me, potentially the biggest threat, but I've yet to have trouble with one

Ranger - annoying because of their pet, otherwise not much of an issue, probably the second biggest threat, but drastically lower than a thief

why are there so many terribad warriors in this game. I've tried out every class for like 2-3 hours and warrior is in the top 3 if not #1. BEST DPS of any class. When i tried him, i soloed eles before my endure pain ran out (5 seconds)

I have not played the professions enough to say which ones are good and which ones are bad. Even if I played all of them, without the appropriate spec and playstyle a strong profession can appear weak etc.

That said, I did play a lot of necromancer in PvP and was pretty pleased with it. I thought I did pretty well against most opponents. I love how there are many ways for you to stay alive and how the profession can make you feel like you are messing with the opponent, blinding , crippling, bleeding, switching to death shroud and blinking towards them, blowing up minions in their face.

I had a LOT of fun with this profession and there is no doubt in my mind (now that I have tried every profession reasonably extensively) that this will be the profession I stick with. That is not just because I did well with the profession (afterall, they are still balancing things) but I just loved the overall profession mechanics and trait lines available from minion mastery to condition control.---I5 760 | MSI GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II | 8GB 1600MHz | WD 1TB 7200Rpm | Corsair VX 550w | CM Gladiator | Samsung S24A350H | Corsair Vengeance K90 | Logitech G500

I've only played Ranger in PvP, and I got the top score in four matches. However, this wasn't due to the class itself but because I was the only one moving around & dodging while attacking. Everyone else was far too stationary.

I think they're all going to end up being fairly even, but I do also think that ranged weapons have several advantages that would make it silly not to use them in PvP. Every melee player I saw was down to half health by the time they got close enough to even use their weapon, and once they did all I had to do was dodge away to safety.

I think all the classes are pretty awesome in their own way . . . and its based on how much you like the class. I had a couple of thieves really wreck me, but I tried playing one and I didnt like it much, so I didnt excel. People keep placing engie low, but I've done very well with one.